The Revival of the Lucerne Passion Play Tradition in the Twentieth Century

• Simone Gfeller ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Bern

     University of Bern

     Bern/Berne/Berna, Suiza

     
• Localización: European Medieval Drama, ISSN 1378-2274, ISSN-e 2031-0064, Nº. 25, 2021, págs. 223-237
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• Resumen

  • This paper examines the reception of the Passion play tradition in Lucerne in the twentieth century. The scholar, director and playwright Oskar Eberle (1902-1956) was largely responsible for the revival of the Passion Play tradition in Switzerland. His main efforts were associated with his ambition for a general renewal of the Swiss amateur theatre tradition, especially the tradition of sacred plays of medieval Central Switzerland. This study shows how the socio-cultural and political situation in Switzerland changed during the interwar period and how the production conditions for Eberle’s Passion play efforts in 1949 became more difficult.